Understanding patterns in crime and policing statistics beforehand can help improve policing and crime prevention efforts. Crime rates have increased around the world. Understanding how crime occurs can be one strategy for regulating and limiting the number of crimes in this environment. Certain trends in the way violations are committed may often be noticed, regardless of the type of crime, time, or location. The police would be much better off if not only to bring down these crimes is also about being impartial and making everyone feel safe, regardless of racial differences and skin color (Racism). Although racial profiling of criminals is unethical, understanding the distribution of people in different groups, such as age or ethnicity, can help criminal profiling. Different trends in crime and policing in the city of Dallas were investigated in the study. Police records of crimes in various locations, on various days, and at various times of the day are analyzed. In addition, tendencies in the racial distribution of offenders were found. The aim of this project is to uncover patterns that could help in making strategy more effective in fighting crime in the future and education purpose.
The study is based on 2016 data on crime and policing in the City of Dallas, Texas. In 2016, Dallas police recorded 2,383 people. The dataset includes information about the people who committed the offences, and the police who responded to the incident. It also includes details about the location and timing of the incident. All of this precise data, when combined, helps in the analysis of crime and policing patterns in Dallas. The number of crimes is spread throughout the area in the city of Dallas, namely the central, north, north, northeast, northwest, southcentral, southeast, and southwest regions.
Map above shows the number of lawbreakers in Dallas during 2016. The way this folder works is that the more enlarged it will be, the more detailed the image will be. This map has the same as other electronic maps that have parts of the city of Dallas, such as airports, highways, housing, railroads, Lakes, rivers and so on. This map will be clarified again with the figures below.
In the map above we are shown more details about crime data throughout the city of Dallas for 12 months. The data is divided into 2 types of maps, namely the “Simple Map” map which means the map will be simple or colorless. While the map “Detail Map” will show in detail the area in the map as I have mantion before. Divided into 7 areas such as central, north central, northeast, southeast, northwest, south central and southwest that can be checked so that they can see in detail as desired.
At figure 1. The total crime in Dallas is very clear. Divided into 7 parts of the area. The area with the largest number of crimes is central Dallas, and the lowest is the Northeast. The other five areas are similar to the number of crimes during 2016.
Figure 2 clearly shows how the percentage of crime every day (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday) with interesting colors and percentage data what is shown makes this map easy to understand. The data compares two important items: 7 days and 7 areas in Dallas.
This figure shows that crime is more common on Saturdays and Sundays in most areas except south central and northeast. The map shows that crime cases in the South East are almost as widespread throughout the week. Then the number of crimes that occurred in the northeast was 24%.
Figure 3 shows the number of crimes that occur in a day. Parts of the day were determined at the time of the incident, with 5 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. being considered “Morning,” 12:00-5:00 p.m. being considered “Afternoon,” 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. being considered “Evening.” With 997 and 299 cases, respectively, the highest number of events at night and lowest in the morning, as shown in the figure. The number of cases per day seems to continue to rise from morning to night, with the largest number occurring at night.
In this figure we are shown the types of crimes that occurred in Dallas in 2016. It consists of 13 types of crimes ranging from narcotics crimes to crimes due to alcohol. This data is compared with the day of the week (7 days) to get a satisfactory percentase value. This data shows that interesting crimes that crimes with motorcycle vehicles only occur on Saturdays and Sundays. On Friday, crime surged beyond the previous day with the highest score on marijuana crimes.
The map above shows 4 types of crimes that occur in Dallas, namely crimes due to alcohol, marijuana, and suspect with gun that spread throughout the city of Dallas. The principle of this map is the same as the map above. When zoomed in will show the crime that occurred in a specific area. This map also shows variable alcohol and unknown drugs that are green have the highest number of crimes among other variables.
In the plot above shows 6 races with crime rates. The data showed that Blacks committed twice as many crimes as Hispanics and whites, who were only about 450 each. Other types of races such as Asians and Others have a non-felony count of 5 and 8 felonies. But this data also shows that the American race Ind leads to only 1 crime. The plot below will show a comparison between crimes between all races in the Dallas area, USA.
On the 7 races in this plot, it is very clear that the hitan race became the most criminal in Dallas, USA. The data also showed that their offenders outperformed other races in almost all areas except nortwest and northcentral where white races committed crimes. most in the northcentral as much as 40% of the total crime dsana. In the Northwest, Hispanics committed the highest crime, at 40 percent.
On this map we can see the conclusion of the data collected that the skyblue-colored black race has a crime point spread across the city. Followed by white race and Hispanic race, then Asian, others and American ind. What’s interesting about this map. White’s race crime data is not visible at all.
[1] The map will make it easier for police officers to carry out their duties. such as mapping the possibility of crime and very good enforcement strategies. by only needing to zoom, the details of the perpetrators in the area of the crime will be seen in great detail.
[2] The number of crimes will continue to be monitored, this system will be very easy to follow the number of cases recorded by police officers. that means the percentage of crimes, the likelihood of when they will occur, and where they will occur will be made easier by these plots.
[3] Racism is something that should not be allowed to happen. Through this data, the author concludes that there are very unequal actions or behaviors where the white people almost never commits a crime, while the black people is the perpetrator of the most actions. These data suggest that this is the case and will likely be a good source of learning or improving attitudes of any race or society in behavior.
[1] University of Essex.
[2] https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/center-for-policing-equity/data-science-for-good